And to think, people today believe we live in troubled times, even the worst of times.....
All this took place in little over a decade.
July 29, 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi party
October 28, 1922 – Benito Mussolini becomes leader of Italy
September 19, 1931 – Japanese troops seize Chinese territory; Manchurian incident
November 8, 1932 – Franklin D Roosevelt elected President of the United States
January 30, 1933 – Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
June 1933 – Nazis open Dachau concentration camp
August 19, 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer
March 7, 1936 – German troops occupy the Rhineland
May 9, 1936 – Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia
October 15, 1938 – German troops occupy Sudetenland; Czech government resigns
March 15-16, 1939 – Nazis take Czechoslovakia
May 22, 1939 – Nazis sign Pact of Steel with Italy
August 23, 1939 – German-U.S.S.R. non-aggression pact signed
September 1, 1939 – Nazis invade Poland; World War II officially begins
September 3, 1939 – Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany
September 5, 1939 – United States proclaims neutrality
September 17, 1939 – Soviets invade Poland
November 30, 1939 – Soviets attack Finland
April 9, 1940 – Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
May 10, 1940 – Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister
June 14, 1940 – Germans enter Paris
July 10, 1940 – Battle of Britain begins
July 23, 1940 – Soviets annex Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
September 27, 1940 – Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
October 28, 1940 – Italy invades Greece
February 12, 1941 – German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa
April 6, 1941 – Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia
June 22, 1941 – Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins
July 12, 1941 – Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets
August 12, 1941 – Roosevelt and Churchill sign Atlantic Charter
August 20, 1941 – Nazi siege of Leningrad begins
December 7, 1941 – Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; Hitler issues "Night and Fog" decree
December 8, 1941 – United States and Britain declare war on Japan
December 11, 1941 – Germany declares war on United States
April 1942 – Doolittle leads first American bombing attack on Japan
June 1942 – Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz extermination camp
June 4-5, 1942 – The United States wins decisive naval battle at Midway
September 13, 1942 – Battle of Stalingrad begins
November 8, 1942 – Operation Torch begins U.S. invasion of North Africa
February 2, 1943 – Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
May 13, 1943 – German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa
July 25-26, 1943 – Mussolini is arrested, and Fascist government fails; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies
September 8, 1943 – Italian surrender announced
October 13, 1943 – Italy declares war on Germany
January 6, 1944 – Soviet troops advance into Poland
June 6, 1944 – D Day landings
June 9, 1944 – Soviet offensive against Finnish front begins
August 8, 1944 – U.S. troops complete capture of the Marianas Islands
August 15, 1944 – Allied invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon(Anvil), begins
August 25, 1944 – Liberation of Paris
December 16-27, 1944 – Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes
January 26, 1945 – Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
February 4-11, 1945 – Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta
March 9, 1945 – U.S. B-29s bomb Tokyo
April 1, 1945 – U.S. troops encircle German troops in Ruhr; Allied offensive in northern Italy; Americans land in Okinawa
April 12, 1945 – President Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes president
April 21, 1945 – Soviets reach Berlin
April 30, 1945 – Adolf Hitler commits suicide
May 7, 1945 – Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies
June 5, 1945 – Allies divide up Germany and take over government
July 1, 1945 – U.S., British, and French troops move into Berlin
August 6, 1945 – First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 – Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 – Japanese agree to unconditional surrender
September 2, 1945 – Japanese sign surrender agreement on USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay. World War II ends
October 24, 1945 – United Nations is officially born
November 20, 1945 – Nuremberg war crimes trials begin
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